Well like a bull out of a gate I kicked up the dust and floated into town and found me some fine clear highly re-fined metho of 95% ethanol.
I don't drink grog so getting shellaced on the goom (name given to metho when drank) has no concern for me.
Went and mixed 'er up and seemed to have dissolved pretty good my the morning.
Wrapped and loaded up some ammo to try with every variation I could think of.
Seemed to have little or no effect on group size.
Mess of pink dots (althou some where being treacherous and tricky and shot a few close together )
I loaded most with 32 2206h and 4 grns 785ww as a reactive filler.
Finally a light bulb went on when I figured that wiping after I had a flyer may help a bit
You can see the mess in the middle of the target where I tried to show that wiping and then the next shot placement.
After each group I would pacth out and figured that my patches were not holding up with lack of lube or not good enough.
The last 4 groups were shot with extra lube applied and groups shrank when I got back down to my normal level of powder loads.
I shot a few plain base loads and sighted it back in for them and shot a 5x group of 0.55" at 50yrds with the last few I had so the shellac didn't seem to accumulate in the bore and effect things ..or ed's red disloves it easily with a patch..
Now I have to load a few and trail the out in the rain for a month and see if they don't get water logged and still shoot.
May seal the primers with a bit of nail polish just to be sure.
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